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-- (NoModeL) M. G. TOUSLEY.

PORTABLE GOAL AND COKE RESERVOIR.

N0.,309,263. Patented'Deo. 16, 1884.

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MIRON GRAHAM TOUSLEY, OF ENGLEl/VOOD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ARMENA PATRICK, OF SAME PLACE.

PORTABLE COAL AND COKE RESERVOIR.

(.SPECIFICATIfiIiT forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,263, dated December 16,1884.

Application filed July 6, 1883.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, 1VIIRON GRAHAM ToUs- LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Englewood, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Coal and Coke Reservoirs, for use with ordinary cooking stoves and ranges, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a simpler and better method of constructingsueh portable coal and coke reservoirs than any heretofore known or used, such reservoir being adjustable to any ordinary cooking stove or range that has kettle-holes over the fire-box, and being removable at will. Heretofore such portable coal and coke reservoirs have either been made in combination with some specific pattern of stove or range or complicated with various pieces and kinds of material in construction, thus presenting obstacles to their general adoption and use, notwithstanding the fact that the introduction of water-fronts into cooking stoves and ranges, the liability of water-pipes to freeze, and the common necessities of many in rural districts make perpetual-burning fires in kitchens during the inclement months of winter an actual necessity.

As I have invented another form for the construction of portable coal and coke reservoirs for which Letters Patent are desired, the device herein described will be designated as form A. Said portable coal and coke reservoir invented by me consists of an upright tubular receptacle so shaped at the'top as to receive an ordinary 'stove-1id for a cover, and furnished with a bail (or with handles) to lift it by, said tubular receptacle being similar in shape to an ordinary angled and perpendicular sided stove-kettle, the larger diameter to remain outside of the stove, the rectangular inward angle to rest on the top of the stove,

and the smaller diameter to pass through a kettle-hole into the fire-box of the stove, but, unlike such a kettle, has no bottom-plate, and through this open bottom coal and coke gravitate from the reservoir into the stove.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device (No model.)

embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top view of the device with the lid or cover set aside. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same filled with coal, with the added outline of an ordinary cooking-stove, showing the manner of its use. Fig. 4 is a perspective of the device combined with an ordinary cooking-stove.

In all the lettered figures of the drawings, A shows the upper part of said reservoir, with its greater diameter, that remains outside of the stove. B shows the inward angle of the same, that sustains the weight of said reservoir on top of the stove and connects the larger and smaller diameters of said reservoir. 0 shows the smaller diameter of said reservoir, that passes through the kettle-hole into the stove. D shows the open end of said reservoir,through which the coal or coke gravitates from said reservoir into the fire-box of the stove. E shows the top lid or cover of said reservoir. F shows the bail or handles by which the said reservoir is lifted and carried. Said reservoir may be of any desired size or any relative length or proportion of parts, and its body made of cast-iron in a single piece.

The operation and application of the device are asfollows: Said reservoirisinserted through a kettle-hole into the fire-box of the stove, when the fire is lighted, (see Figs. 3 and 4,) then filled with coal or coke in any quantity desired, and the lid put on, and the fines of the stove may be closed or adjusted as may be deemed proper. To remove said reservoir, the ashes may be raked down and the fire and remaining fuel raked from under the res ervoir into the firebox with a hook, the reservoir set aside, and the lid replaced on the stove.

Now, I do not claim the use of my portable coal and coke reservoir in the specially made openings of formerly-patented cooking-stoves that combine coal reservoirs or magazines with their general parts in construction, as in Patents Nos. 129,379 and 129,466, of A. D. 1872; nor do I claim any ofthe irregular shapes or bearings of the reservoirs or magazines of those patented stoves, which are very unlike the shapes and bearings of the device I claim. Nor do I claim the shape of the body of the reservoir when constructed with two separate parts joined together with a simple slip-joint, and with the lower part slotted at the top to form bearings for the journal of an inside valve, as in Patent No. 44,612, of 1864, the construction of my device, on which I base my claim, being simpler and better adapted to its special use as a continuously-feeding reservoir or magazine of fuel, it having no slip-joint or journal-openings invits body and no inside valve to obstruct the free gravitation of the fuel into the stove. N or do I specially claim the bail 0r handles or the cover herein described, they being commonly-used attachments. 

